Gregory Hines scores big on Broadway with Jelly's Last Jam.

As he is puffing, Hines is thinking about what comes next, what he is
hoping to do to follow the success of Jelly's Last Jam .
Tap is in his future, he says, and so is film.

"I'm committed to this show for a year," he says. "And, I'm looking
forward to it. I'm going to use that time to develop a couple of
musical films. I co-own the movie rights to the story of the great
African-American tap dancer Bill Robinson, and I very much want to do
that."

Because the role of Jelly Roll Morton is so intense, he says, he is
not planning to take a vacation during his time in the show. "It would
he very hard to come back," he says. But afterward, he says, he is
looking forward to relaxing in Barbados, "while the Caribbean is
lapping up against the shore."